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WWF’s Protected Area – Benefit Assessment Tool?
Sue Stolton
Equilibrium Research
April 2009
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Why do we need to know about values and benefits?
• Understanding what people value and what benefits they can or do gain from these values is crucial for effective management and good stakeholder relations
• Communicating this wide range of values and benefits can help build support – financial and political
• Identifying the full range of current and potential benefits can help identify new revenue streams; research priorities; adaptive management strategies
• Standardising the approach to assessing values and benefits can aid system, regional or even global advocacy of protected area values
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Why develop a benefits assessment tool?
• IUCN defines a protected area as: A clearly defined geographical space, recognised, dedicated and managed, through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values
• The PA-BAT has been designed to collect information on these associated ecosystem services and cultural values
• The PA-BAT can also contribute to the CBD’s PoWPA’s: Target for Goal 3.5: By 2008 public awareness, understanding and appreciation of the importance and benefits of protected areas is significantly increased
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Important features of the PA-BAT?
• The PA-BAT includes a standard typology of values and benefits
• A very simple tool which can easily be used with large numbers of stakeholders with minimal translation costs (assuming coordinators speak English)
• The PA-BAT is not designed to produce a “score” related to benefits, as summing up results will produce a bias towards multi-purpose reserves rather than protected areas focussing on biodiversity conservation
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Background and uses
• The PA-BAT has been developed as a contribution to WWF’s Arguments for Protection project and WWF’s poverty and conservation policy
• The PA-BAT has been designed for use by protected area managers to work with stakeholders to identify important values and the benefits that they bring to a range of stakeholders, from local to global
• The PA-BAT can also be used by local communities to identify values and benefits and by protected area advocates, such as NGOs, to help promote the range of benefits a protected area can provide
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What information does the PA-BAT collect?
• The PA-BAT aims to assess legal resource use and the benefits that could accrue from that use
• It is not an assessment of overall resource use, which would include illegal use
• The PA-BAT includes the option to record economic information; but its primary purpose is to record the types of benefits and to whom they are provided
• The PA-BAT provides a framework and does not attempt to cover every possible situation; it can be adapted for increased relevance
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Main features of the PA-BAT
1: Background information datasheet: includes basic data about the protected area including management objectives and the areas contribution to well-being
2: Values datasheets: a set of 24 datasheets (assessing 27 values) which collect information about: • types of benefits• who they are important to• level of importance – economic and non-economic• relationship to the protected area• times of year in which the value is important• conservation and management issues
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nature conservation
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management jobs
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hunting
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wild food plants
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fishing
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spawning areas
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traditional agriculture
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grazing and fodder
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water non-commercial
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watercommercial
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cultural and historical
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sacred natural sites
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wilderness and iconic value
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local medicinal resources
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pharmaceuticals industry
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tourism
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building knowledge
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education
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genetic material
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climate change mitigation
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soil stabilisation
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coastal protection
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flood prevention
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water quality and quantity
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pollination
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timber extraction
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material extraction
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Using the PA-BAT with communities
• Values PPT – involving minimal translation – to develop discussion around a specific value
• Simplified assessment PPTs on which to importance of the benefit provided by that value (minor/major/potential)
• Two more detailed assessments in relation to area/timing/value and notes regarding conservation impact and management needs
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use of resources
Indigenous/ traditional people living inside the protected area
Other local people living inside the protected area
Indigenous/ traditional/ local people living near the protected area
National population
Government Industry Global community
++ +P +P P $ $P
Resource: Water quality and quantity
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area of resource and seasonality
Activity takes place in a small part of the protected area (i.e. 5-10%)
Activity takes place in several areas (i.e. 11-50%)
Activity takes place over most of the protected area (51-100%)
The activity takes place only occasionally for short periods of time
The activity takes place regularly but not continuously
The activity is continuous
Economic value (state currency and period/weight etc)
Resource:___________________________________________________________
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Conservation impact: ________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Management needs: _________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Resource:___________________________________________________________________
Additional points: ___________________________________________________________
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notes
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Putting it all together
Values in the park
Group 3
Group 2
Group 1
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